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Picked by Matt JarvisTHE EXTRAORDINARY
ADVENTURES OF
BARON MUNCHAUSEN
Designed by James Wallis – whom many of you will recognise as a regular contributor to
this magazine – this social game is a spectacular competition of one-upmanship inspired
by the titular real-life teller of tall tales. Players take turns to weave their fantastic and 100%,
definitely, absolutely true yarns, accounting for sudden details their fellow storytellers can
throw in at the cost of a token. (“You forget that the alligator you rode to the moon
was in fact made of marshmallow!”) Once everyone’s had a go, the group picks
their favourite – but it’s more about the laughing than the winning. The rules
themselves only take up about a page in the book, the rest being amusing
observations on suggested topics; it’s well worth a read in full.10
OF THE BEST
LOL, ROFL and have TOTT (tears of laughter on the
tabletop) with these hilarious cardboard crackers that
will leave you in creases for April Fools’ Day
FUNNY GAMES
APPLES TO APPLES
The inspiration for Cards Against Humanity and roughly a billion terrible party games
on Kickstarter, Apples to Apples is a simple game of picking the right thing: literally. A
player pulls a ‘description’ card that everyone else tries to match with the best ‘thing’
card from their hand, with the selected winner becoming the next judge. What’s
more dysfunctional: the Vatican or the MTV Music Awards? Debating over this
answer and thousands more provides plenty of opportunity for laughs.4
10 April 2019
YOGI
Best described as ‘Twister stood up’, Yo g i is an even
funnier physical challenge of contorting yourself
in response to a deck of instruction cards. Some
cards even have to be balanced or held between
parts of your body- fail to keep up with your mounting
list of directions and you’re out! For a
more expressive art style, try Yo g i’s
original incarnation, In a Bind, which
was followed
by a kid-friendly
J r. edition that
added animal
noises and silly
poses to the
giggly mix.
Telestrations
A boxed version of pen-and-paper game ‘Eat Poop
You Cat’, Telestrations is a drawing game that
makes it hard to draw breath. Everybody doodles a
word, which gets passed to their neighbour – who
then tries to describe what they see. So it goes,
with the basic prompts quickly spinning into ever more
bizarre and hysterical examples of miscommunication.
For a ruder alternative, Scrawl starts with suggestive
phrases – things can only go downhill from there...3
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